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People scramble for cash after road accident spills banknotes on busy Hong Kong street South China
Some motorists and passers-by treated themselves to an early Christmas in Hong Kong after a road accident involving a cash transport vehicle spilled millions of dollars in bundles banknotes across a busy motorway in Wan Chai at lunchtime.

They made their performance debut in New York City’s Union Square metro station, and their You Tube video went viral because you can’t resist this funky trio of trumpet, baritone saxophone and drums. They’re 20-something subway buskers whose beats and brass house are challenging the mainstream pop-music formula.

Anna Creek is the biggest single cattle property in the world. Its area is roughly 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km2; 9,400 sq mi) which is slightly larger than Slovenia in Europe or state of New Jersey in the USA.

The owners, Michael Bunton, 44, and Gail Anderson Bunton, 40, purchased this formerly vacant lot on Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill neighborhood in 2001, according to public records. They completed this carriage house-style home with a mansard roof in 2006 for about $1.5 million, not including the cost of land, Mr. Bunton said. The home is designed as a homage to the historic mansions on Clinton Avenue, one block over, which would use this street for their horse-carriage houses.